J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Rouen, Le Havre, Caen, Bayeux and Isigny ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Le Havre, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Le Havre, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
?Le Havre, Normandy 1826
D23503
Turner Bequest CCLI 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue’, ‘G[...]’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘24’ top right, ‘199’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the upper half of this page with studies of coastal terrain. Tate curator Ian Warrell suggested that these were taken in the vicinity of Le Havre on the Normandy coast.1 He also identified the sketch in the lower half of the page, inverted in relation to those above, as a scene of women in the distinctive local dress of the region.2

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.30, 207 note 12
2
Ibid., pp.33, 208 note 22

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Le Havre, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-le-havre-normandy-r1185346, accessed 23 September 2024.